ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,212, issued on June 30, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Techniques for intelligent video highlight summarization" was invented by Ankit Kumar Aggarwal (Mumbai, India), Reetesh Mukul (Bangalore, India) and Pramir Sarkar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Video Highlight Summarization System (VHSS) is described for generating a personalized video highlight summary from a video source (e.g., a sport match) based on a user's query. In some embodiments, the VHSS may perform multimodal data analysis. The multimodal data may include information from video, audio, and text from images ass...